Category Archives: Local News
You still can’t vote often, but Illinois election authorities want you to do it early
Matt Dietrich, spokesman, Illinois State Board of Elections, says vote-by-mail is so 2020.(Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD– Vote-by-mail is so 2020 !!“We are in a u...
Aug 17, 2020
Four employees at McLean County Nursuing Home test positive for COVID-19
The McLean County Nursing Home located at 901 N. Main St. Normal. (WJBC file photo) By Neil DoyleNORMAL – McLean County Administrator Camille Rodriguez on Friday confirmed that four employe...
Aug 14, 2020
McLean County adds 32 new cases of COVID-19
McLean County Health Department Administrator Jessica McKnight (middle) and Kari Jones (right) the health department’s health promotion program manager. (Neil Doyle/WJBC) By Neil DoyleBLOOM...
Aug 14, 2020
Bloomington woman charged with delivering baby in a toilet
Jamieson Badgley, 19, of Bloomington. (Photo courtesy: McLean County Jail) By Heart of Illinois ABC BLOOMINGTON – A Bloomington woman is jailed on charges she delivered a baby in a toilet last D...
Aug 14, 2020
Normal Mayor: “Were working together to get on top of this”
Normal Mayor Chris Koos (right) visited with Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Director CEO and President, Patrick Hoban (left) after Gov. Pritzker spoke at the Bloomington-Normal YMCA. (Photo c...
Aug 14, 2020
State distributing 2.5 million free face masks to public schools
The free face masks are being distributed by the Illinois State Board of Education and Illinois Emergency Management Agency. (Photo Pixabay) By Neil Doyle SPRINGFIELD – The state is distr...
Aug 14, 2020
4 IWU students test positive for coronavirus
Illinois Wesleyan University said it expects to test approximately 750 more students in the coming days. (Photo courtesy Illinois Wesleyan University) By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – Illinois...
Aug 13, 2020
20 new COVID cases in McLean County
McLean County’s rolling seven-day positivity rate went up to 1.9%. (WJBC file photo) By Neil Doyle BLOOMINGTON – McLean County added 20 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringin...
Aug 13, 2020 McLean County Health Department. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)
Gov. Pritzker stops in Bloomington to announce COVID-19 funding
The YMCA will get $20,000 and and over two-dozen McLean County businesses are included in the first round of BIG grants. (Photo courtesy: Blake Haas/WJBC) By Neil Doyle and Blake Haas BLOOMINGTON R...
Aug 13, 2020
Koos applauds ISU, Heartland for returning to Normal in a ‘measured way’
Normal Mayor Chris Koos. (WJBC file photo) By HOI ABC NORMAL – It’s time to get back to Normal, said Normal’s mayor, but he’s commending leaders of the town’s univ...
Aug 13, 2020
